Ayn Rand has been in the news a lot lately . . .

. . . but this is getting ridiculous. Just about one week's worth of miscellaneous browsing and I hit upon five different discussions:

"Why Ayn Rand is Hot Again: The unconservative Ayn Rand and her relationship to the American right".

"Howard Roark in New Delhi".

"Mrs. Logic: Ayn Rand never got into an argument she couldn’t win. Except, perhaps, with herself." (New York irony!)

"Wesley Mouch Award".

And, of course, the essential "Ayn Rand Power Dressing".

Comments

[kyle8]

Rand is responsible for leading a lot of people, (usually in their college years) to a more conservative/libertarian way of thinking, and for that she deserves praise.

But her ideology, Objectivism is no more a viable way of life than pure socialism. Likewise, I dislike how some libertarians seem to make a cult of personality around her. In many ways she was a product of the same rationalist school of thought that brought us Marx, Engels, and Nietzsche. People who IMO were in error because they reduced all human interaction into rational units and disdained the power of romanticism, religion, love and sacrifice. Thus they got only a portion of human life.

[whosonfirst]

The trouble is that 99% of the American people never heard of Wesley Mouch. That makes it easier for them to be taken in by someone like Bill Clinton who is the very embodiment of same.

[Speedmaster]

Timely! I just posted a review of Atlas Shrugged last night:
http://bit.ly/IAQYL

[John Henry]

I am a major Rand Fan. Actually more of an Atlas Shurgged fan as I find much of her work to be virtually unreadable.

I am so much of an Atlas Shrugged fan that I used to use it as the text in my MBA capstone course "Business Government and the Environment"

That's environment as in social environment or society.

So I am happy to see her getting some recognition.

John Henry
www.changeover.com